[pd-discuss] Activities for Public Domain Day 2013

Maarten Zeinstra mz at kl.nl
Thu Dec 20 18:48:50 UTC 2012 

No I am not, but every notable person on Wikipedia probably created something copyright protected. I wouldn't limit the search to authors only, statesman, painters, sculptors and musicians could all create copyright protected work that is soon to be public domain

Cheers,

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On 20 dec. 2012, at 19:31, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> SPARQL isn't my strong suit, but are you actually filtering for people who are authors?  Looking at both the query and the results, I'm thinking not.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz at kl.nl> wrote:
>> I don't know if anyone queried DBpedia yet, couldn't find it on the list using a quick search.
>> 
>> WIth some help I created this query:
>> 
>> PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/>
>> PREFIX dbpprop: <http://dbpedia.org/property/>
>> select distinct ?author ?year ?nationality where {
>> ?author dbpprop:nationality ?nationality.
>> ?author dbpprop:deathDate ?year.
>> FILTER regex(?year, "1942").
>> } 
>> LIMIT 1000
>> 
>> results here:
>> 
>> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=PREFIX+dbpedia%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2F%3E%0D%0APREFIX+dbpprop%3A+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fproperty%2F%3E%0D%0Aselect+distinct+%3Fauthor+%3Fyear+%3Fnationality+where+%7B%0D%0A%3Fauthor+dbpprop%3Anationality+%3Fnationality.%0D%0A%3Fauthor+dbpprop%3AdeathDate+%3Fyear.%0D%0AFILTER+regex%28%3Fyear%2C+%221942%22%29.%0D%0A%7D+%0D%0ALIMIT+1000&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on
>> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately very few Dutch people, only three.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Maarten Zeinstra
>> 
>> -- 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 20, 2012, at 14:31 , Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> We also have this excellent list compiled by Adrian Pohl using a Freebase query - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoZvWOCjkB-odDcwSEJmSjM1TGtRd2Q5eTllLUxPU1E#gid=0
>>> 
>>> On 20 December 2012 12:26, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Just to check: do you mean the midnight between Thursday 20th and Friday 21st?
>>>> 
>>>> So far we have:
>>>> 
>>>>   * This overview post (with nice graphic ;-) http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/
>>>>   * This spreadsheet (which probably needs expanding to include other works): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHJxTFNGSk0wWEdnY2FrMXNmSXlmU2c#gid=0
>>>> 
>>>> I agree that in future we need a canonical URL (e.g. publicdomainreview.org/works/...). Regarding Bit Torrect, by total coincidence someone from Bit Torrent wrote to me last night - so will definitely follow that up.
>>>> 
>>>> J.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> My point is, I think we should have some from each of those 4 areas - whatever is known to us as of Dec 30  :)  I think producing an infographic, a spreadsheet, and a torrent (and an email campaign about them) shouldn't be  beyond reach.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would love to skype about this sometime after  0000 UTC Friday morning, with you and anyone interested.
>>>>> 
>>>>> S
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>>> (changing subject line for clarity!)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi SJ,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> All of what you suggest sounds great but I'm not sure how much of this we'll be able to put into place before 1st January.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What is your availability like between now/next week? Perhaps we could catch up on Skype at some point over the next couple of days?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The Public Domain Review has done this, which you may have seen:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We'd also like to prepare a more comprehensive spreadsheet (which could then possibly be displayed/explored using the magic Listify [1]) of other stuff that is going into the public domain in 2013.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Many of these works will not yet be scanned, so perhaps this list could be of value to inform ongoing digitisation/transcription initiatives.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [1] http://okfnlabs.org/listify/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Reforwarding.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Too many lists!  How I wish my Coralline message system was up and running... 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Okay, here's what we need:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> STATS:
>>>>>>> A set of bite-sized stats we can compile about the "PD Delta Function" that goes into effect Jan 1.  Number of pages, number of derivatives or related works made, number of historical readers.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> A similar set of stats about last year's crop.  Including the year's data on how things have changed:  the (change in) the number of sales of works; the number of Google hits for searches, the number of sites making works available online, the number of refs to such works in research?  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> VISUALS:
>>>>>>> A good fast snarky designer.  I have the Cards Against Humanity guys in mind because of their fun recent wikimedia stunt,[1] but anyone will do.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> An [annual] poster summarizing such data.  Prototype for a future year, for instance.  This can be a canonical web-infographic b/c of limited time.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ONE DOWNLOAD:
>>>>>>> A torrent that we can encourage everyone to seed and download.  Someone gets to be responsible for compiling the darn thing by Dec. 31 and posting it at the new year.  This is "as complete as it can be made on the morning of Dec. 31"
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> METADATA LIST:
>>>>>>> A spreadsheet with metadata of things entering PD, including a canonical link for a page that will contain the (revised over time) links to sources.  We get to choose where that link goes, but it should be an archive that will host such a page permanently for each work.  Wikisource is ok if there's no obvious alternative.  OL is only for books, unfortunately.  An archive that generates and maintains UUIDs would be even better.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If we have those four things, this will be a smashing hit.  Other thigns like trying to make the lst comprehensive will take time and can be a goal for next PD Day.
>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>> SJ
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [1] http://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/holidaystats/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> (Copying Primavera)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> *Sigh*. Yes, we've been wanting to do this for years with our Public Domain Works project [1]. And I'm sure you've seen our work on the Public Domain Calculators [2]. I wanted to start doing more on this last year [3] - but alas other things got in the way. 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> SJ: suggest that we could start a thread on this on the pd-discuss list [4], and I'll pitch in there so that others can join in our conversation. Perhaps we can organise a call and a virtual sprint on this in the new year?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> In any case, short answer: yes, we should definitely do something and we'd love to work with you to make this happen. ;-)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> [1] http://publicdomainworks.net/
>>>>>>>> [2] http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/
>>>>>>>> [3] http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/06/lets-open-up-the-public-domain/
>>>>>>>> [4] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/pd-discuss
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